DRIVER SUSPENDED AFTER SCHOOL BUS CRASH

The school bus driver whose vehicle rear-ended another Tuesday has been suspended without pay pending an investigation into the accident, bus company officials said.

Ten Bloomfield High School students suffered minor injuries in the accident.

The rear bus was at the end of a row of vehicles that were coming to a stop on Park Avenue, near Revere Drive. The driver, whose name was not released, applied the brakes, but the bus skidded on the rain-slicked road, officials said.

Clifford Gibson, district director for Laidlaw Transit, the school system's contracted bus company, said, "We don't have any indication so far that there was any problem with the vehicle."

Gibson said that the driver in the first bus, also owned by Laidlaw, reported that he had to stop suddenly after a car cut him off.

Police were still investigating the accident. As of late Wednesday, no charges had been filed.